Historic Tours of Old San Marcos

The Historic Tours of Old San Marcos Committee may be contacted for a tour of the Charles S. Cock house Museum or a conducted tour of San Marcos historic districts. A residence or building indentification following a name indicates that person is well-versed in showing that particulat structure. Windshield Tour indicates that docent is capable of conducting a full tour as well as specializing in an individual building.

Frances Stovall	Heritage Tourism Coordinator:All locations, and Baugh Ranch/ Camino Real	512-392-9997
Fran Anderson	Windshield, Hofheinz House	512-392-1113
Jane Moss	First Methodist Church	512-396-3478
Flo Hild	Charles S. Cock House, Church	512-392-4872
Anne Glaves	Charles S. Cock House, Windshield	512-353-1948
Johnnie Armstead	The Calaboose	512-353-0124
Carole Greer	Windshield	512-392-9852
Pam Dever	Consultant/Advisor	512-396-5173
Rose Ayers	Charles S. Cock House	512-353-8708
Jo Nairn		512-353-7069
Martha Jane Mauldin		512-392-4348

The Tours

The Old Fort Street Tour

• Charles S. Cock House including the Memorial Grove, the location of the Henry McCulloch camp, the Gazebo and the River Walkway
• Old Fort Street (Hopkins)-original location of Merriman Cabin - relocated with genuine appearance (though now in derelict condition) at Aquarena Springs
• Crystal River Inn (possible visit) - 1886 home of Judge W.D. Wood
• Augusta Hofheinz House (possible visit) - Millie Seaton's doll collection
• Old Episcopal Rectory (Benchmark) by reservation
• Visit to commercial establishments - gift and craft shops (choices offered)

The Historic Districts Tour

• First United Methodist Church - introduction to tour
• Belvin Street National Register District
  The George T. McGehee and Sarah Cherokee Woods House
  (Possible prearranged visit to a selected private home)
• San Antonio Street - approaching from end of Belvin Street at Bishop
  (Possible prearranged visit to Porter House)
• Windshield tour of Courthouse Square
  Old First National Bank (Courthouse Annex)
  Hofheinz Confectionary (Waldrip Insurance)
  Glover Bank (Chipman restorations)
  Iron building front (Hays County Abstract)

The Georgia Lawshe Woods Tour

• Woods Plantation on the Camino Real and the route the cotton followed to Mexico
• The house built in town,while Col. Woods was in the Civil War, -- where the Union officer was killed in San Marcos during Reconstruction
• Office on Fort Street (Hopkins) Georgia obtained for the doctor's use upon his return from the war
• The Hawkins-Lawshe bell (1790) of the First Methodist Church
• Woods family plot in the San Marcos Cemetery where Georgia is buried as well as her father, Lewis Lawshe, a veteran of the War of 1812

The Camino Real Tour

• The Texas Highway Department Camino Real monument
• McGehee Crossing marker
• The San Marcos de Neve 1936 marker
• Rancho Camino Real - visit to the restored cabin of Charles L. McGehee

The Stage Coach Road - Stringtown Tour

• San Jacinto land grant to General Edward Burleson
• The John D. Pitts purchase from Burleson and subsequent settling of the community by the Pitts-Kones families
• The 1850 Pitts Cemetery
• The slave cabin on Hunter Road
• The Gideon Johnson House